According to General Cosgrove:
Will recruitment be able to get these additional numbers? I'm not familiar with how successful ADF recruitment is. Going by the TV ads, the theme has become more aggressive which is a departure from the previous 'softer' type ads. The older theme probably drove the sort of folks away that the Army needs to attract. Those who want to be warriors.OUTGOING defence force chief General Peter Cosgrove today backed calls for up to 2000 more troops for the army.
General Cosgrove, who stands down at the top of the defence force and hands over to Air Marshal Angus Houston next week, said there was an evolution in the way wars were being fought.
He said the conclusion that more troops were needed – the army has about 25,600 fulltime personnel – was fairly recent.
"We are talking in the last few months that we have become persuaded that to do it properly we may need to ask government for another 1000 to 2000 troops in the army," he told the Nine Network .
"It is not something which has been sitting there unconsidered by government. It is really just evolving thought.
The Australian
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